The ANC has no appetite for the youth wage subsidy put forward by the Treasury last year in an attempt to alleviate the high youth unemployment rate.
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/ 24 February 2012
The government has claimed that job creation is its top priority yet it has cut the allocated budget by almost R4-billion from last year.
A national strategy is teaching communities basic skills and putting food on the table.
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/ 17 February 2012
At a time when job creation is the focus of economic policy, a colossal fight is brewing over the reliability of employment statistics in SA.
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/ 23 January 2012
South Africa aims to create five million jobs by 2020 but has only created 624 000 in the last decade, according to a survey released on Monday.
Government says Cabinet’s January lekgotla, which will form the basis of the president’s state of the nation speech, is due to begin on January 17.
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/ 10 January 2012
According to the Adcorp Employment Index, over 100 000 new jobs were created in December 2011 with temporary work growing the fastest.
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/ 11 November 2011
National planning commission outlines proposals that will help the failing state to meet its long-term goals.
President Jacob Zuma says the government wants more public sector internships to increase job creation and aid skills development.
Pravin Gordhan needs SA’s economy grow at a rate of around 7% per annum in order to create jobs and keep the country globally competitive.
Jobs are not being created fast enough to absorb the rising labour force, despite two consecutive quarters of job creation in SA, says Ebrahim Patel.
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Two new commissions are to be chaired by Jacob Zuma and Kgalema Motlanthe in an effort to speed up infrastructure development and job creation.
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The department of public works say they created more than the required 600 000 job opportunities in the 2010/11 financial year.
Deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe has warned that SA must not fail to harness the economic upswing of the south to grow employment opportunities.
Business has a crucial role to play in the reconstruction of South Africa, ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa said on Tuesday.
Agriculture and mining have the potential of creating many jobs, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said in Durban on Monday.
The department of transport’s multi-billion rand road maintenance programme will create 70 000 jobs, transport minister said on Monday.
The latest version of the Industrial Policy Action Plan will create 129 000 jobs, the Trade and Industry Minister said on Wednesday.
SA’s previous growth period had "not been strong on job creation" and growth is still slow by international standards, President Jacob Zuma said.
South Africans need to become as single-minded about creating jobs as they are about cricket and soccer, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said.
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/ 25 February 2011
A youth subsidy that would get people working at a fraction of the IDC’s costs will only start next year.
Job creation will be a priority throughout all spheres of government this year, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said on Tuesday.
President Jacob Zuma was expected to adopt a characteristically conciliatory approach in his annual State of the Nation address.
It has been a mixed bag of promises kept and broken since Jacob Zuma’s last State of the Nation address.
As President Jacob Zuma readies for his third State of the Nation address, there is no shortage of advice as to what he should say.
SA intends to create a R10-billion fund to tackle massive unemployment, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday.
The ANC is undermining its mission of creating five million new jobs through poor foreign policy, nepotism and ill-conceived legislation, the DA says.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Tuesday pledged its "undying support" to the ANC.